The birth of any person is a mysterious event. This is not just another event for the registrar; a new being is come into the world, filled with inextricable mystery. In fact: what will this newborn person bring to the world, and what will life give him? This is why parents...

         This month our parish marks an important event: the 70th anniversary of its founding. On September 11, 1949, the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, St. John of Shanghai celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first time with the newly established...

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and...

Great is the significance of the feast day of Holy Prince Vladimir for the Russian people, for it is a day that we remember the glorious Illuminator of Rus and the greatest event in its history, the Christening of the entire Russian people, the exact date of...